Weekly Top 5

This week’s updates include the completion of Microsoft’s Skype acquisition, Dell and Windows 8 devices, Bing branded deals; Zynga’s IPO, new games, Zynga Direct, Angry Birds and IPO plans; Facebook’s acquisition of friend.ly, association with Walmart; Apple’s pre-orders for 4S, launch of iOS5, Foursquare’s launch of Radar; Google+ userbase, closure of Buzz, and the launch […]

Communities and Brandstreams

Last week, I’d written about transparency in organisations, and touched upon something that’d force transparency on them – conversations about them. While conversations can happen on the organisation itself, I believe the brand will also act as a starting point in many conversations. A transparent organisation will transfer some positive equity to the brand and […]